Book cover of Stream System: The Collected Short Fiction of Gerald Murnane

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What is it in the life of a person that deserves the light of language? This question is far and away the most important question a writer faces. Very few writers seem to be acutely aware of this fact. Very few writers are rigorous enough to remain with the challenge of the question; once a writer begins to write, that is, there is so much that asks for it to be forgotten.

I marvel at Murnane’s capacity to resist such forgetfulness.

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